4. Project Planning Phase
In order to visualize the sequencing or precedence
requirements of the activities in a project is helpful to
draw a network diagram. For this the following steps
are adopted: Indentify various activities to be performed in the
project, i.e. develop a breakdown structure(WBS).
Determine the requirement of resources such as
men, material, machines, money, etc.
5. Assign responsibility for each work package.
Allocate resources to work packages.
Estimate cost and time at various levels of
project completion.
Develop work performance criteria.
Establish control channels for project
personnel.
6. Scheduling Phase
Once all work packages have been
indentified and given unique names or
identifiers, scheduling the project, i.e.
when each of the activities are required
to be performed, is taken up. It prepares
an analysis/estimate of the likelihood of
the project to be completed on or before
the specified time.
7. The various steps involved in this phase are:Identify all people who will be responsible for each
task.
Estimate the expected duration(s) of each activity.
Specify the interrelationship.
Develop a network diagram.
Based on these time estimates, calculate the total
project duration, identify critical path; calculate
floats; carry out resources smoothing exercise for
critical resources, taking into account the resource
constraints.
8. Project Control Phase
Project control refers to the evaluation of the
actual progress against the plan. If significant
differences are observed, then the scheduling
and resource allocation decisions are changed
in order to update revise the uncompleted
part of the project. In other words, remedial
or reallocation of resources measures are
adopted in such cases.
